Contributors
- Contributors
Simon Avenell is an assistant professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled “Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Citizen in Postwar Japan.”
Dean Brink is assistant professor of literature at Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is researching ideological uses of Japanese poetry during the period of colonial rule in Taiwan.
Richard F. Calichman is an associate professor of Japanese studies and chair of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, City College of New York. His most recent publication is Overcoming Modernity (2008).
Allen Chun is a research fellow in the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests include sociocultural theory, national identity, and (post)colonial formations. In addition to his book Unstructuring Chinese Society: The Fictions of Colonial Practice and the Changing Realities of “Land” in the New Territories of Hong Kong (2000), he has coedited a book titled Refashioning Pop Music in Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries (2004). [End Page 769]
Laura Hein is a professor of modern Japanese history at Northwestern University in Chicago. Her 2004 book Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan appeared in Japanese in 2007.
Minoru Iwasaki is a professor of philosophy and political thought at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His most recent publication is Fifty Famous Writers of Postwar Thought (2006).
Rebecca E. Karl teaches history at New York University. She is the author of Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2002) and of the forthcoming Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World (2009).
J. Victor Koschmann teaches modern Japanese history at Cornell University. He has written Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan (1996) and coedited (with Yasushi Yamanouchi and Ryûichi Narita) Total War and “Modernization” (1998).
Fabio Lanza is assistant professor of modern Chinese history in the departments of history and East Asian studies at the University of Arizona. He is currently completing a manuscript on student politics and urban space in the May Fourth era.
Lau Kin Chi teaches cultural studies in Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Former board chair and council chair of the Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA), council cochair of the People’s Plan for the Twenty-First Century (PP21), and current member of the International Coordinating Committee of PeaceWomen across the Globe (PWAG), she has edited or coedited a number of books, including Colours of Peace: Stories of 108 Women in China (2007), The Masked Knight: Collection of Writings of Sub-Commander Marcos (2006), and Subaltern Studies (2005). Her writing focuses on contemporary Chinese literature, ecology and livelihood, and alliance building.
Helen J. S. Lee is assistant professor of modern Japanese literature at the Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. She is currently working on a book manuscript that employs a variety of popular media to examine the colonial relations between Japanese settlers and Korean subjects during Japan’s colonial domination in Korea.
Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree is an assistant professor in film and television studies at the University of Vermont. She is currently working on a book-length project theorizing postcolonial East Asian cinema.
Steffi Richter is professor of Japanese studies and director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Leipzig. She is the author of a book on scientific thought in Japan titled Ent-Zweiung: Wissenschaftliches Denken in Japan zwischen Tradition und Moderne (Ent-Zweiung: Scientific Thought in Japan between Tradition and Moderism) (1994) and editor of Contested Views of a Common Past: Revisions of History in Contemporary East Asia (2008). [End Page 770]
Wesley Sasaki-Uemura is associate professor of history at the University of Utah. He is the author of Organizing the Spontaneous: Citizen Protest in Postwar Japan (2001). He is currently working on a project called “The Arts of Protest in 1960s and 1970s Japan” that explores the relationship between certain political artists and New Left movements.
Wen Tiejun, an economist and specialist in rural affairs, is dean of the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University in Beijing. He is deputy president of the...
